How To Add Weight To Work Light Base?

Some cut.

Would it be practical to fasten a barbell or dumbbell weight to the base in the center?

How often do you move this device? Does the weight have to fold up conveniently?

When I was a photographer I used sand bags...add whatever weight you need.

No idea but if you want tubes of something use lead shot and epoxy.

When I was a photographer I used sand bags...add whatever weight you need.

No idea but if you want tubes of something use lead shot and epoxy.

Could an old cast iron (or plastic) barbell weight, or maybe even an old automotive flywheel just be slipped over the mast and allowed to rest on top of the tripod apex? Wouldn't be pretty, but would probably work great.

Erik

Lead shot and epoxy sounds like a good solution. You can fill each of the legs from the top and the bottom, don't have to worry about the rivets in the middle of each leg.

Purchase fast. Obama just closed the last smelter, and the price is sure to go up any time soon.

Possible, but cumbersome. I still want to be able to fold up the base easily. A dumbbell weight would prevent that or at a minimum make it inconvenient.

Thanks, but I'm looking for a integral solution. No extra parts to carry, store, move.

That's a possibility. I'll look into it.

Extremely often.

Yes.

Can't do it without making the legs longer.

How about three sandbags, laid over the horizontal parts of the base, or even maybe the sloping parts.

That way the base won't be permanently heavy, if you want to carry it somewhere that the added weight isn't needed.

And if there's a flood, you'll be 3 bags ahead of the game. Plus other uses.

I don't think you can buy sandbags in most places, but you can buy the bags and fill them with sand.

You seem to have missed my response the last time sandbags were suggested.

"Thanks, but I'm looking for a integral solution. No extra parts to carry, store, move."

Besides, I live on top of a hill overlooking a bay. If a flood ever reached my house, we'd all be in more trouble than sandbags could possibly deal with. We'd be talking an Armageddon-like situation.

I read that and it's going to be tried. I was merely replying to micky's sand bag suggestion, which came very late and had already been suggested, more than once.

BTW...the light fell over again tonight. It doesn't take much of bump for it to start to topple. Unfortunately my hands were otherwise occupied and I couldn't catch it.

An alternative to adding weight is to increase the span of the legs. Can't tell the diameter of what you have but perhaps they lend themselve to having pipe/tubing sliped over them? Wouldn't have to be a perfect fit, a couple of pins at 90 degrees to each other would stifle any wobble.